I got lucky with some summer internships, moved to the city, did a helpdesk/desktop support role for 2 years, got laid off, and got my new job a month or so ago. Came with a 15% raise and a bunch of extra vacation days so I think it all worked out for the better.

No certs to speak of. The only relevant education I have is an IS degree.

Hahaaaaa, funny how that works nowadays, isn't it? Loyalty doesn't exactly get you too far.

Not to go into too many specifics but taxes eat about 35% of my income, and rent is $1325 a month for where I live. The rest of cost of living is pretty contingent on lifestyle(spending on food, including bars, usually comes out anywhere between $300-$500 monthly). I'm pretty much a cheapskate with everything else so I get by and am able to put money into my 401k and save enough(ish) each month.

Just make sure that you park in the Megabus lot with the printout on your dash. Sometimes you can even get away with writing "MEGABUS" and the date of your return on a piece of paper. The two lots are right next to each other, and the longer you leave your car in the park and ride(If you decide to do that) the more likely it is that you'll get towed/ticketed.

I actually read in an interview that they get these from the massive vault of a certain well known american TV show... I think the implication is that these are all originally unused submissions for America's Funniest Home Videos that they somehow gained access to

Woah hey I havnt been back here in a while, I'm still workin on it! Volume 1 is translated and scanned on my HD but I've been real lazy about it but rest assured the day will come when you will read it. Also I bought volume 2 when I was in Japan in march and believe me this is one fat ass book, it has a lot more stuff than the first one did.

Oh cool people are still reading this! Yeah the people at bones and shinichiro watanabe said that they would make a movie if it were successful... Which I'm not sure if it is. But then again, I don't think cowboy bebop was very popular in Japan either but it still got a movie.

Anyway I got the rest of volume 1 translated and it's just sittin in google docs because I'm a lazy boy. I'll put it out eventually!

Yeah, that's what I thought, but my big issue is that I can't get the vita and the PS4 to pair, and I was thinking maybe there was something that changed in 2.55 to keep it from pairing with lower firmware vitas. Am I screwed on that front?

that was great! i loved the panel where honey's(?) top got ripped off accidentally by dandy, and where her nipple should be there's a little watanabe face with a text box at the bottom saying "shinchiro watanabe wants you to support space dandy so he can make the movie." genius! so funny.

edit: who downvoted this? what in the world did i say that could possibly have offended people or not contributed to the conversation?

Yeah that wasn't originally there. I figured nobody would care about a lost nipple at the expense of a joke. The original anime titty can be seen here. I probs won't keep doing that but if I'm feeling like a funnyman who knows

Those Yoko Oginome songs are actually all off of the same album, Verge of Love, which was produced by Narada Michael Walden, an American who won some Grammys around the time that this album came out. The entire thing is a winner!

There are two versions, the ones in this mix were taken off of the english version, but the album exists entirely in Japanese as well!

You can still find people playing freedom unite on the US Adhoc Party app, though it is a little barren. If you wanna play monster hunter you should try Freedom Unite or Portable 3rd on the Japanese Adhoc party app, there are always people in multiple rooms playing there.